Bravo. This is the hope of Britain, if Britain is to have any future as a free nation: Michelle Hughes and people like her. Britain needs people who are unwilling to kowtow and curtail their activities in the face of violent intimidation. Cowering before the jihadis will only embolden them.
The supine, abject authorities who issued the recommendation to cadets not to wear their uniforms represent the spirit of David Cameron and Theresa May: cowardice and appeasement.
“Teenaged Army Cadets Are Choosing to Defy Terrorist Threat by Wearing Their Uniforms,” by Donna Rachel Edmunds, Breitbart, March 8, 2015:
A 17 year old army cadet has chosen to defy terrorist threats by wearing her cadet uniform to and from school. All police and military personnel, including members of the combined cadet force, have been advised not to wear their uniforms in public thanks to the increased risk of attack from Islamic militants.
Intelligence gathered late last year suggested that some jihadist cells in Britain were hoping to stage attacks similar to that which claimed the life of Fusilier Lee Rigby on the streets of London in 2013. Consequently, last December army chiefs issued advice to all cadets not to wear their uniform in public. The warning came a week after police and military personnel were similarly advised.
Andrew Halls, headmaster of King’s College School (KCS) in Wimbledon, southwest London, wrote to the parents of children at the school who belong to its Combined Cadet Force, passing along the military’s advice.
But Michelle Hughes, who already has 12 A* GCSEs to her name and has represented England at athletics, chose to ignore the advice. “I saw the email from the headmaster and so did my mum, but I was going to wear the CCF uniform anyway,” she said. “I don’t really feel at risk. My mum wrote back to the school saying that she had not brought us up to be scared of anything.” She added that a number of her fellow cadets had also chosen to wear their uniforms in public.
Her mother Rose Hughes, a single mother of four who came to Britain from Nigeria, said: “I am not going to be afraid of evil frustrated people. That is the way I brought up my children. I brought them up to work hard and achieve and fulfil their potential.
“There are crazy people out there who take their frustrations in life out on other people, but this country is peaceful and I do not want my children to be afraid. Let the terrorists be afraid, they are the ones who should hide.
“It is a wonderful privilege to be alive and to live in a country like Britain. Nothing is risk-free, but on the whole this country is safe. I want my children to be on the right side of life, to do the right thing and fulfil their potential. The only thing you have to be afraid of in life is fear.”
Halls said that he respected the decision, but felt that it was his duty to pass on the message. “I respect Michelle’s mum’s message. I think it is admirable, but I would not want to enforce it if anyone did not feel comfortable with it. What would be really awful would be if we packed in the CCF because we thought it was risky . . . We have two boys in the sixth form on army scholarships and we are very proud of that.”…
jihad3tracker says
A courageous young woman . . . Perhaps on a branch of her family tree is the DNA of Sir Winston Churchill.
james hazan says
Hear,hear.
Sam says
We need more of these women in Europe who can see what is going on with clarity and can face evil, meaning Islam, without fear. God bless the mom and the family.
mortimer says
Mr. Spencer,
You are quite wrong. The no-uniform measure protects the public from being in a crossfire.
Military training is not about waving a red flag at Islamists (who are all over UK). Military training is for the sake of preparedness. Dead teenagers help no one and will never be able to join the regular army because they will never get there.
Sir, YOU PUT YOUR TEENAGERS IN UNIFORM AND ASK THEM TO WALK THROUGHT THE NO-GO ZONES IN LONDON, BIRMINGHAM and BRADFORD!
What? You wouldn’t do that, would you? No other British parent will either and that would be the end of the cadet programme.
PRODOS says
mortimer: “The no-uniform measure protects the public from being in a crossfire.”
No, it doesn’t do that.
mortimer: “YOU PUT YOUR TEENAGERS IN UNIFORM AND ASK THEM TO WALK THROUGHT THE NO-GO ZONES IN LONDON, BIRMINGHAM and BRADFORD!”
Those areas are unacceptable. British law & order needs to be enforced.
Regards,
PRODOS
Melbourne, Australia
Babs says
Don’t you get it, Mortimer? Muslims will perceive a red flag waved at them regardless of whether or not British soldiers wear their uniforms in public! Their hair-trigger sense of offence is permanently primed and where there is not offence they themselves cause it and then blame us! Do you honestly believe that Islamists give one tuppeny damn about civilians injured in the crossfire? They DELIBERATELY set out to injure as many innocent civilians as they can so as to prime people like you to write on blogs as you do.
Good for this young woman. She has more courage than the UK government and security forces. I hope that many, many more will follow her example, and that she will shame others who are too spineless to do so.
Laconic Reason says
True.
Sugarboots says
Kudos to the young woman who stood up; as well her mother. When will the left-side of Britain wake up? Knights in shining armor, where are you?
mortimer says
You wouldn’t think so if your child sat next to a cadet in uniform and was accidently shot by a jihadist misfire.
PRODOS says
mortimer: “You wouldn’t think so if your child sat next to a cadet in uniform and was accidently shot by a jihadist misfire.”
If that happened to a child of mine, I would remember the craven cowardice of people like you and how this helped bring about an environment where Jihadists think they can get away with such things.
Regards,
PRODOS
Melbourne, Austrralia
g k says
“…accidently shot by a jihadist misfire.” – a non-sequitur if there ever was one. We’ve seen what such jihadists do, whether Boko Haran or IS, to children as part of their commitment to the Sunna of Mohammed…
Jacksonl03 says
Next they need to wear their uniforms and carry their guns. Oh . . . I forgot. Only terrorists and crooks can carry guns.
mortimer says
Are you nuts? Teenagers carry loaded weapons on a bus unsupervised?
Soldiers can’t have a loaded weapon without an officer present! You’re nuts!
Jacksonl03 says
I’m nuts? Teenagers on the streets with no protection? Seems like I’m the one with nuts. After all, they are military students. Doesn’t that mean they’ve been taught how to use weapons?
PRODOS says
Jacksonl03 replied to mortimer: “After all, they are military students. Doesn’t that mean they’ve been taught how to use weapons?”
Not sure about that.
In any case, more widespread licencing of guns for adults might be worth considering.
Best Wishes,
PRODOS
G. Hardy says
When I was in the UK Territorial Army I cycled to the Royal Anglian Regiment base In Coldham’s Lane from Cambridge Station in combat uniform with beret and sometimes CND types or Trotskyite loons waved their fists at me from the safety of their cars and mouthed their fatuous slogans.
But we won the Cold War because people like me were not cowed, either on the streets on in the classroom, where we were made to feel weird, retrograde, and reactionary.
Likewise, the British will in the end see off the Islamic threat, even if, for the time being, we can only watch with foreboding a nation busily engaged in heaping up its own funeral pyre.
mortimer says
Thank you. A comrade knows you’re right. A citizen soldier understands the issues.
pumbar says
So is Britain still finished then or what?
gravenimage says
With all respect, Pumbar, your frequent implication that the only problem Britain really has is that Robert Spencer sometimes despairs over the level of Muslim appeasement there—and dares to say so—seems quite off base to me.
Perhaps that fact the there is so much dhimmitude there—including this cowardice and appeasement from military authorities there, might be regarded as a more serious issue.
When Robert Spencer points out cowardice and appeasement in the US, I don’t get defensive—I get mad at the dhimmi tools.
pumbar says
Lots of respect returned at you Graven.
I don’t think that the only problem the UK has is Robert Spencer’s drooling “despair” over the appeasement that muzzies enjoy in the UK. I think my people face real, deadly endemic problems. What I do not like is a mocking, slavering voice that calls my country “finished” and my people craven, supine cowards.
Has Robert “Joe Kennedy” Spencer said this of any other country? No. Just the UK.
Can you imagine if I posted on here that the USA is finished and is full of cowardly, supine, abject cowards. Can you imagine the excoriating I’d get for that?
As it is I’ll get back to my more usual daft posts. I think I’ve probably made my point.
All the best 🙂
PRODOS says
pumbar: “What I do not like is a mocking, slavering voice that calls my country “finished” and my people craven, supine cowards.”
I re-read Robert Spencer’s post but could find no such suggestion.
pumbar: “Has Robert … Spencer said this of any other country? No. Just the UK.”
I’ve found Robert Spencer’s comments, observations, and criticisms of all countries, including the USA, to be fair and even-handed.
If there are more problematic incidents in one country than in another, it follows that there will be a greater number of criticisms focused on that country — its policies, its authorities, its laws, etc.. It doesn’t mean that country is being picked on or being unfairly singled out.
If young men have (let’s say) ten times more car accidents than older men, there will be far more reports critical of young men’s driving than there are of older men’s driving.
We can’t say: “Well, why aren’t you telling us about the older men who have accidents? Why are there ten times the number of reports of young blokes vs older blokes?!”
Best Wishes,
PRODOS
Melbourne, Australia
gravenimage says
Pumbar wrote:
Lots of respect returned at you Graven.
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Thanks, Pumbar.
More:
I don’t think that the only problem the UK has is Robert Spencer’s drooling “despair” over the appeasement that muzzies enjoy in the UK. I think my people face real, deadly endemic problems. What I do not like is a mocking, slavering voice that calls my country “finished” and my people craven, supine cowards.
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The idea of Robert Spencer “drooling” or “slavering” over the prospect of *any* part of the West falling to Islam—let alone Britain—I believe is way off base.
He and Pamela Geller wouldn’t still be fighting to overturn their ban if he didn’t care deeply about the native British people.
More:
Can you imagine if I posted on here that the USA is finished and is full of cowardly, supine, abject cowards. Can you imagine the excoriating I’d get for that?
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You actually find *appalling* examples of cluelessness, dhimmitude, and appeasement here in the US—much of it chronicled here in Jihad Watch. I don’t get defensive over such reports, because I am concerned about them as well.
I have noted many times before that the whole of the free West is headed down this same mad path—none of us should get cocky, and all of us are in severe danger.
More:
As it is I’ll get back to my more usual daft posts. I think I’ve probably made my point.
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I’m certainly not trying to prevent you from having your say—I just wonder if Jihad and its appeasement shouldn’t be our main focus? Despite what you may believe, Robert Spencer is *not* your enemy.
My mother is English, and I have an aunt and a large number of cousins in Britain. I care *very much* about what happens to them. Moreover, even if I had no personal stake in the future or Britain—and even if I cared nothing for the British people—I would still be concerned over the effect that an Islamized Britain would have on Europe, the West, and the rest of Dar-al-Harb.
More:
All the best
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Same to you.
gravenimage says
UK: Teen Army cadets defy jihad threat & dhimmi authorities by wearing their uniforms
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Bravo to these brave lads and lasses!
And note that the family of the main girl featured in this article is of Nigerian heritage—so much for the idea that terrorism is an “immigrant” issue, rather than purely a Muslim one.
And this girl and her family are *much more British* than are some dhimmi native Brits, who are ready to roll over for Islam.
I hope the example of these courageous teen army cadets inspires all patriotic Britons!
mortimer says
Courage is not the issue here.
Courage is a given for anyone who volunteers. You are insulting the wrong people.
Jihadists are looking for targets. This measure protects the public.
Soldiers who wore green and hid behind a tree were once called ‘cowardly’, but concealment is not cowardice, but prudence. The enemy is in UK and very vicious.
gravenimage says
Mortimer wrote:
Courage is not the issue here.
Courage is a given for anyone who volunteers. You are insulting the wrong people.
Jihadists are looking for targets. This measure protects the public.
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Mortimer—with all respect—if Jihadists know that not just teen cadets *but all British military personnel*, as is the case, have been advised not to dare wear their uniforms in public so as not to “provoke” Jihadists, do you *really* believe that this will make things safer for the native British public?
I sure don’t. They will decide that if even Britain’s defenders are hiding from Muslims, that it is open season in civilian Infidels there.
I am not insulting individual teen cadets and their parents who may decide to obey the ban, either out of a misguided sense of duty or out of fear of Jihad violence, but I *am* questioning how such a ban will in the long term do anything but alert violent, supremacist Muslims that they are winning.
PRODOS says
I agree with gravenimage who also points out that the advice to not wear military garb is not confined to teen cadets but extends to adult military personnel.
mortimer: “Jihadists are looking for targets. This measure protects the public.”
But it doesn’t.
mortimer: “Soldiers who wore green and hid behind a tree were once called ‘cowardly’, but concealment is not cowardice, but prudence. The enemy is in UK and very vicious.”
That sort of concealment is part of an operation for militarily — i.e. by the use of force — defeating an enemy. Concealment of that type is not done in order to not provoke the enemy. Those using such concealment tend to be armed and in active battle. True?
Regards,
PRODOS
Melbourne, Australia
gravenimage says
PRODOS, how long have you been posting here? Good to see another Aussie on board.
PRODOS says
gravenimage wrote: “PRODOS, how long have you been posting here? Good to see another Aussie on board.”
Thanks. 🙂
I don’t post very often, but I’ve been a massive fan (and student) of Robert Spencer’s work for years.
Feel free to email me any time: prodos@prodos.com
Best Wishes,
PRODOS
Melbourne, Australia
Andrew GB says
Mortimer!
My goodness you are grumpy! Sort it out, we are on the same side! Don’t be fractious stand united and supportive.
Lia Wissing says
The hour is said to bring forth the man, or woman, or the CCF cadets. Bravo!
Itinerant says
It’s now considered ‘brave’ to wear a British Army uniform in Britain- says it all really.
BC says
These cadets who have more cojones than the whole Tory Cabinet should be shadowed by an armed plainclothes policeman who has permission to shoot anybody who even looks at them evilly. Of course the slimey lawyers would say that was entrapment.
noellsq says
Thank G-D their are people who are still sane in England. Fear is what the the animals generate and fear is what they need to get. If an animal attacks a person in a military uniform he should be dealt with. The more they attack people with uniforms the more hopefully the general public will become aware of them and hopefully hunt them down
Richard Courtemanche says
Good on her but British leaders, save your country rather than behaving like traitors.
albert says
I hope that the police and the politicians protect this brave girl and her family, but experience from the many Muslim rape gang cases which have shamed Britain recently show that the police and socialist politicians would rather turn a blind eye to rape and even murder ( as in at least one case of a 14 year old in Blackpool whose killers laughed and boasted that they had fed her in kebabs to the unbelievers ) than offend their muslim friends.